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Mr. R. T. Baker's E. Wilhinsoniana, E. nigra, and E. Iceoopinea, var. minor, 

 are transit forms, but as, in my opinion, they are nearer to typical eugenioides than 

 to the present species^ I shall defer consideration of them. 



It will he found that not only have we connecting links between E. pilularis 

 and E. eugenioides, but E. pilularis also connects them with other stringybarks, 

 E. capitellata and E. macrorrhyncha. 



2. E. piperita, Sin. — This species and E. eugenioides are so closely related 

 that any species possessing affinity to the one may be looked upon as possessing 

 affinity to the other. The proper way to study the matter is to examine the series 

 connecting E. eugenioides and E. piperita, such specimens being largely developed 

 in Victoria and southern New South Wales. 



I have specimens from the National Park, 20 miles south of Sydney, 

 collected by Mr. Julius Camfield, with the inflorescence in a dense raceme and 

 the fruits large and ovoid, showing, in the latter respect, an approximation to 

 E. piperita. (Fig. 1, PI. 4.) The operculum is not as long as that of E. pilularis 

 usually is, and the filaments are white although they have been collected for a 

 considerable period. 



Bentham alludes to the affinity of E. pilularis to E. piperita in the following 

 words. While the former is not related to the latter so closely as to some other 

 species, the affinity is there and must not be neglected : — 



E. piperita is sometimes difficult to distinguish in the dried state from some forms of E. ohliqua, 

 and on the other hand it approaches E. pilularis, differing from both of them generally but not strictly, 

 as well in the foliage as in the bud and operculum, but more readily in the fruit. The variety eugenioides 

 (E. eugenioides, Sieb.) is, however, in some respects almost intermediate between E. piperita and 

 E. jnlularis, var. acmenioides (E. acmenioides, Schauer). — (B.F1., iii, 208.) 



3. E. capitellata, Sm. — Both in Victoria and South Australia plants have 

 been named E. capitellata by excellent botanists which have proved to be 

 E. pilularis, var. Muelleriana ; for example, specimens from the Grampians and 

 Wimmera in the former State and Mount Lofty Range in the latter. In our 

 own State, specimens from Mount Wilson and other localities are nearer to 

 var. Muelleriana than to E. capitellata. Of course, true E. capitellata occurs in 

 all three States. The most obvious characters of the latter species are its sessile, 

 compressed fruits and angular buds, the former a consequence of the latter. 



4. E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M. — The affinity of E. pilularis to this species 

 s so close that I must frankly say that I have a number of specimens which I 



hesitate to place under one species rather than under another. A connecting 

 link is Bentham's var. brachycorys of E. macrorrhyncha, of which I give some 

 particulars under E. pilularis as a matter of convenience. 



E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M., var. brachycorys, Benth. New England, C. Stuart. A mountain 

 species. Bark separating in fibres like the V.D. Land E. gigantea (C. Stuart). 



